Monday, October 31, 2016

Well, here are all the pen-and-ink scans for 2016's Inktober/Halloween drawings in one post. One could say that it sort of defeats the purpose of Inktober by colorizing the pen-and-ink, but that's never stopped me before (and won't in the future, either, of course).

So, without further ado, and with further adon't, here they are in their black and white gory! Er, glory!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

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All were done with pen-and-ink with a No. 10 brush on 8-1/2" x 11" cardstock (with a minor assist with a Pilot Precise v7 pen for the "They Live" drawing).

Friday, October 28, 2016

Sure, "They Live" has been a meme for this year's election, so why not join in the fun?

I always liked John Carpenter's "They Live", being a fun, action/paranoid movie involving aliens disguising themselves among human society. They are controlling humans with subliminal messages embedded within all media to "CONSUME", "BUY", "SLEEP", "OBEY", etc. If you have special glasses, you can see the aliens and the messages they are propagating.

And, of course, it has one of the best lines in cinema, from Rowdy Roddy Piper: "I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick @$$...and I'm all out of bubblegum." Oh, 80's movies, don't ever change!

Monday, October 24, 2016

In the mid-80's, I binged through some of Clive Barker's books--particularly his short story collections "Books of Blood", "The Inhuman Condition", and "In the Flesh". I even read "The Hellbound Heart", so I already had a passing familiarity with Clive Barker and the story the "Hellraiser" was based on.

What can I say about Pinhead that hasn't been said already? One of the most iconic monsters to come out of 80's horror, right up there with Jason, Freddy, and Mike Meyers. Although, maybe I should have gone with some of the more obscure Cenobites, like Butterball, Chatterer, or The Female... Maybe next year.

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STEP ONE: The pencils were done with a .5mm mechanical pencil on 8-1/2" x 11" cardstock. I actually started over and re-drew everything several times to get Pinhead even vaguely right.

Friday, October 14, 2016

I remember when I first saw the VHS box for "Killer Klowns From Outer Space" back in the 80's, I just sort of rolled my eyes at the title (I checked it out, of course). However, when I watched it, I thought it was a clever, amusing, and a whimsical horror movie. I mean, it has killer balloon animals, pop-corn guns, cotton candy cocoons, and people-eating shadow puppets! What else do you people want in a movie? They were a sort of circus version of "Mars Attacks".

Gee, I haven't watched it in quite a while... I think I'm gonna have to watch it again.

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STEP ONE: The pencils were done with a .5mm mechanical pencil on 8-1/2" x 11" cardstock.

Thursday, October 13, 2016

It's another Inktober/Horror B-Movie drawing! In this case, it is the 1984, um, classic, "C.H.U.D." (Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller). As a teen, the VHS cover to C.H.U.D. was ubiquitous in everyplace you could rent movies and was nigh impossible to avoid (not that I did, of course).

And, yeah, I know the alternate for C.H.U.D. is Contamination Hazard Urban Disposal, but Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller beats that into the ground. I mean, c'mon, it isn't even a fight for that one. :-)

C.H.U.D.'s even made appearances in "The Simpsons", one of which I quote shockingly often:

Onward!

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STEP ONE: Here are the pencils, using a .5mm mechanical pencil on 8-1/2" x 11" cardstock.

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STEP TWO: The inks were done with a #10 brush.

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STEP THREE: After I scanned it in, I colorized it in Photoshop. Originally, I went with a red color scheme, but then thought better of it and a changed it to green.

Friday, October 7, 2016

For fun I decided to do another Ronda Hatton pen-and-ink sketch as a warm-up (about one hour). It turned out well enough I thought I could get away with posting it as another Inktober post on the Blog. In fact, there are parts of this drawing that I like better than the previous Rondo Hatton I slaved over for several hours--it's more loose and has a sketchy quality. That's the way it works, I guess.

I just did really quick, scribbled pencils and didn't even bother scanning them in, since I didn't plan on posting this picture. So, here are the inks:

The inks were done with a No. 8 round brush and the colors were thrown on in Photoshop.

Thursday, October 6, 2016

Hey, it's October/Inktober! Starting it off with a pen-and-ink drawing of B-Movie actor, Rondo Hatton. He suffered from Acromegaly, giving him his distinctive look which he used to parlay roles in B-Movie thrillers and horror movies.